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Atkinson Firth Conveyancing Solicitors in Shipley

We provide an excellent service coupled with quality and affordable conveyancing services by our experienced property solicitors in Shipley. Your instructions will be performed by a member of our qualified legal team, who are experienced property solicitors with expertise in residential and commercial transactions.

Our conveyancing solicitors offer a thoroughly professional, service whether you are buying or selling your house, letting it or transferring the equity, or whether you are buying or selling a commercial property. Please use our online no obligation conveyancing page which will provide you with an instant quote.

How we differ from the competition? We will not charge separately for matters which are almost always required, for example registering your title, acting for your lender, etc. We will in most cases try and cover all our charges in the quote.

Once you have generated the quote and are happy with our estimate, telephone us to see if the online quote covers the cost of every search, etc. which we have to carry out on your behalf. Sometimes the fees come slightly above the online quote, sometimes below. The reason why the online quote cannot be 100% correct in every case is not that the fees we charge will alter, but the searches and bank transfer fees, etc. may vary.

We are a member of the Law Society's Conveyancing Quality Scheme

CONVEYANCING - MORE INFORMATION

The buying and selling of a house, how it works and who does what

Glossary

GLOSSARY OF COMMON TERMS OFTEN USED IN CONVEYANCING

Exchange of contracts
: Until contracts are exchanged either the seller or the purchaser can pull
out of the proposed transaction without any financial consequences. Once
contracts are exchanged if either the buyer or the seller pull out of the
deal without the consent of the other then there are severe financial
consequences. A deposit is paid on exchange of contracts. It is the
exchange of contracts which is important, not the signing of contracts.

Completion date
: The day the monies are handed by the buyer to the seller. The day people
move in and out.

Local Search
: Search with the local authority which includes whether there are any
proposals to build new roads nearby, whether there are any planning
applications affecting the property, whether there is any money outstanding
on the property to the Council and many other things.

Land Registry Search
: To prove that the seller has not mortgaged the property more than he or
she has said and they do in fact own the property.

Mining Search
: This is to obtain a copy of the records from British Coal about mining
which may have affected the property you wish to buy and any claims made to
British Coal because of mining subsidence.

Environmental Search
: A search to discover whether the property is adversely affected by
contaminated land or similar.

Drainage/Water Search
: Whether the property has main drains etc.

Chancel Search
: This is to make sure the vicar cannot come after you and ask you for
money to maintain the Church. On very rare occasions they can.

Stamp Duty
: Tax paid to the Government. This duty is paid by the buyer and in some
cases the seller.

VAT
: Another tax by the Government. This you have to pay as tax on the
Solicitors fees.

Land Registry Fees
: Fees paid to the Land Registry to register change of ownership of the
property.

Lender
: The organisation such as a bank or building society who lend you the
money to buy the house and also when you sell the house and they want the
money back.

Telegraphic Transfer Fee
: When completion takes place the money is sent from one Solicitors bank to
another and also the lender sends money to the Solicitors by bank transfer.
This is what the TT fee is for. The more transactions there are, the more
TT fees there are.